Let's discuss: Baby in sewer pipe - how much is life valued?

In this still image taken from video, rescue workers cut away parts of a sewage pipe where a newborn baby was trapped in Pujiang in east China's Zhejiang province. Chinese firefighters rescued the newborn boy from a sewer pipe below a squat toilet, sawing out an L-shaped section and then delicately dismantling it to free the trapped baby, who greeted the rescuers with cries.

The story out of China about the baby rescued from the sewer pipe is sad, infuriating, but also strangely uplifting (after all, the child survived because of diligent neighbors, dedicated firefighters and skilled doctors and nurses).

How could such a thing happen? Is China's one-child policy to blame for such callousness? Or are all cultures, including our own, at fault when it comes to valuing and protecting our most vulnerable?

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Let's discuss: Baby in sewer pipe - how much is life valued?

The story out of China about the baby rescued from the sewer pipe is sad, infuriating, but also strangely uplifting (after all, the child survived because of diligent neighbors, dedicated